Platooning, the act of cars autonomously following their leaders to form a road train, has huge potentials to improve traffic flow efficiency and driving experience on freeways, and most importantly road traffic safety. The challenges of this application are numerous, as witnessed by the number of projects working on this topic from the eighties till nowadays. Platooning indeed encompasses cont...

Introduction: Classroom management is leading the class bysetting the class schedule, organizing the procedures, supervisingthe learners’ progress, and predicting and solving their problems.Students’ disruptive behaviors and classroom management arethe most important challenges and concerns of the teachers. Thecurrent review aimed to analyze the classroom managementtechniques and strategies use...

Despite their ambiguous historical record, conservation/development interventions the world over have remained a popular environmental governance tool. One of the latest global ‘trends’ are interventions to establish so-called ‘Transfrontier Conservation Areas’ (TFCAs): large contiguous spaces that are principally aimed at conserving biological diversity across national boundaries. In line with...

BACKGROUND Adequate use of different learning strategies is one of the most important prerequisites of academic success. The actual use of learning strategies is the result of an interaction between individual and situational variables. Against this background we conducted a longitudinal study with first year medical students to investigate whether individuals show different patterns in their u...

Recent research has revealed that learning behavior is associated with academic achievement at the college level, but the impact of specific learning strategies on academic success as well as gender differences therein are still not clear. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate gender differences in the incremental contribution of learning strategies over general cognitive ability ...

The increasing role of software for developing products and services requires that organizations align their software-related activities with high-level business goals. In practice, this alignment is very difficult and only little systematic support is available. GQM+Strategies is a method that aims at aligning organizational goals, strategies, and measurements at all levels of an organization ...